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Chicago examiner thursday november 19 1908.-14 pages vol vi no 286 a m price one cent Â»Â«*Â«â€¢-- will honor finerty to-night the committee in charge has completed all the necessary arrangements for the john ''â€¢ finerty memorial meeting to be held this evening at 8 o'clock at the new seventh regiment armory thirty-fifth street ami vi'cntwortb avenue bourke fockran of xew york will be the orator de sagans laugh at charges made against them by boni ex-husband tells court quar rels of pair have wrecked children's nerves saved 130,000 francs because of this economy in five months prince says gould is friend by vance thompson pares nov 18 in open court to-dayj maitre bonnet lawyer for count boni de castellane declared he knew positively that the trincess de sagan contemplated | asking a divorce from her husband and ' added that the constant strife and quar reling had so injured the health of count boni's unfortunate children that they have become nervous wrecks the advocate states that he has a letter from the de sagan family physician sayiug that he has jjeen forbidden even to acquaint count boni with the condition of the children in spite of these startling statements j the court adjourned the case for a week count de castellane who was present in thc courtroom told the examiner corre spondent that other and more serious allegations would be made proving the un fitness of thc de sagans to have charge of the children princess calls charges lies the correspoudent went at once to the famous de sagan mansion in the avenue du bois de bolougne the trincess de sagan wan ill and iu bed but ln answer to a note | asked the correspondent to come up dressed in a black peignoir she received him ln the tapestried boudoir where she sat holding a small blenheim spaniel on her knee when she heard what count boni's lawyer had stated in court she cried oh it is infamous a lot of lies she said i told you yesterday how happy the prince and i were you may be surej 1 nothing has changed in our cordial rela ; tions the only thing that worries me is j , the statement alleged to have been made _ by our doctor i can't lnder3tand it they would hardly dare take a forged letter into court would they at this moment the prince who had been 6ent for came in as to the two children being nervous wrecks continued the princess they really are 111 that is boni the eldest has chicken pox jay probably will take it and perhaps george the doctor thinks i may get it myself and the prince too both laughed as if this was a good joke then the princess told her husband how worried ' she was over the doctor's state ment that the condition of the children was being concealed oh dou't worry said the prince we will go and see the doctor ourselves physician writes out denial the prince accompanied the correspond ent to the residence of the family physi cian dr e o avieragnet in the rue de courcelles the doctor wrote out the following explicit denial of m bonnot's allegation i have never written to the count de castellane refusing to give him news of his children you may be sure of this on the contrary i have put myself at the disposal of bis family physician dr lere houlet to give him news of the condition of the children at any time avieragnet upon our teturn to the house prince de sagan said pausing at a small room on the first floor come into my den you see i don't take up much room in the house princess de sagan refused to discuss any of the allegations made against her hus band in the papers served on her by count boni saying they are all lies and will come out soon enough the prince was less reticent he said boni bas raked up a lot of old stories nnd scandals mostly malicious lies dating from twenty to thirty years ago said de sagan one allegation was made that none of his family would speak to me this can bc disproved by letters from casttllnne's own family written iu terms of affection up to the last two years prince saving money growing confidential the prince said you know the goulds were very much i opposed to me at first but they have | come round now one thing helped thei agent of the gould estate in paris showed | by his accounts that instead of spending our income and reserve we have in the ' last five months saved 130,000 francs of course i am not yet free of debts but 1 am paying them off rapidly and we have a good reserve this so pleased george gould that he has become my ally and friend we are living well and pay ing off our debts at the same time the prince said there was no question of their winning the suit brought by count i boni although it would cost a lot of money the lawyers know we have it he said so it i l pos t us more than it will cost boni but it will be hard on him the ex penses of the suit will swainti hlm when bc spoke of count boni's troubles the prince smiled Taft will strive to keep cannon out of the speaker's chair deaf to sherman's pleas burton of ohio chosen for gavel president elect wants root in senate hot springs va nov is.-presi dent-klect Taft is convinced to-night that elian itoot will be elected senator from new york and that joseph g cannon should not be re-elected speaker of the house james s sherman vice president-elect and william l ward who came here os tensibly for their respective healths have kept a private car on the side track on the top of the mountain three days await 1 ing the return of mr Taft they saw i him this afternoon for two and one-half hours at his cottage and told him that me hoot should be and would be senator from new york sherman's mission was to beg for can non he took assurances to mr Taft that cannon would be good in the next fonr years but mr Taft knows from observa tion the attitude of cannon toward poli cies that soon are to become his own and is skeptical of the speaker's sincerity | william l ward conversant with house ! conditions says that any one can beat i cannon if it is known that the new ad ministration is against the speaker con gressman burton of ohio is the man who the next administration would like to see in the speaker's chair it is likely that if mr root goes to the senate george von l meyer will be made secretary of state and that will leave the treasury portfolio open wife says spirits bade occultist end life m'-s barnes declares professor could not resist call from beyond boston mass nov 18 that professor william a barnes the eminent psycholo gist who killed himself ln the back bay station had delved so deeply into the realm of the beyond that he was forced to follow the beckoning of immortal hands and enter the unknown is the beltef of his j stricken wife i know my husband fought against the call of the unseen the dwellers in the world beyond for at least six years said mrs barnes i helped him fight against the impulse to take his own life but it proved too strong for him in the end we lived together iu perfect harmony and oftentimes we actually dreamed the same i dreams we were born to the same spir itual plane woman blind 36 years has sight restored benefited by noted german specialist after severe operations new york nov 18.-after being blind for thirty-six years miss alice hollis sees again Â» although her vision is not perfect she can read with eyeglasses typewritten letters miss hollis left here to-day for her home in port huron mich she was stricken with blindness when thirteen years old miss hollis went to germany and consulted dr pagensticher a famous specialist of the eye at wies baden she knew a man whose sight dr pagensticher had restored the man's blindness like her own had been caused by the application of a too strong caustic for inflammation of the eyes dr r.-tgen sticher performed several severe opera tions on her eyes with the happy result of restoring sight vice president gayley will quit steel trust resignation to be accepted before jan 1 announces president corey new york nov 18 william e corey president of the united states steel corporation made this announce ment to-day mr james gayley first vice president to-day tendered his resignation which will be accepted he has advised us that he wishes to retire from active business he has contempleted doing this for some time and by resigning now gives time to complete our organization for the begin ning of the new year it is said that mr gayley has been in poor health recently and had frequently expressed a determination to retire from active business at 75 again asks divorce crawkordsv.lle ind nov 18 mrs catherine bryant who filed suit for divorce from simon bryant last january but was persuaded not to push the case has now filed a second suit both mr and mrs bryant are past seventy-five years of age and have been married fifty years loesch robbed of erand jury fraud testimony evidence of nineteenth ward corruption taken from prosecutor's desk suspect office employe il4 more indictments against 9 men county enjoined from paying salary one hundred pages of grand jury testi mony taken from nineteenth ward wit nesses was missed from the office of special state"s attorney loesch yesterday afternoon this astounding discovery was made shortly after 5 o'clock by chief investi gator robert m buck who had occasion to refer to the papers in question and their loss was immediately reported to at torney loesch and his assistant frank h janiszeskl the missing pages included the testi mony of thirty-seven witnesses from that ward and was the basis for several of the indictments that have already been returned it also included testimony upon which several true bills have since been voted but which have not yet been re turned in court â€¢ the documents together with the sten ographic notes from which they were drawn were kept in a drawer of mr buck's desk and were returned to their accustomed place late tuesduy night drawer locked papers gone until last evening there had been no occasion to refer to them and then they were gone the drawer had been left locked when mr buck went home tues day night and was still locked last eve ning if it was a theft and it evidently was said mr buck it was one of the most mysterious that i have ever come in contact with the desk shows no sign of violence no strangers have been al lowed about no one has beeu in the room unless 1 was present and yet the testi mony is missing i am unable to con ceive how such a thing could have been done when the theft was reported to at torney loesrh he directed that an imme diate search be made of all the vaults and safes all the desks and drawers and every other nook and cranny of the offices it was without avail there was only one copy of this evidence and if it is not recovered it is possible that all of the witnesses who gave the testimony may have to be recalled utmost secrecy maintained mr loeseh's instructions to his assistants were for the utmost secrecy as to all the proceedings of the grand jury even the stenographers have not been permitted to retain their own notes but both the notes and their transcripts have beeu taken in charge by mr buck and locked in his desk the janitors who swept out have not been permitted to enter any part of the office suite alone and every piece of waste paper has been carefully torn up iu the presence of mr loesch or one of his as sistants before it has been taken from thc building there is only one set of keys to each desk , suspicion has not definitely fixed itself on any oue iu connection witb the disap pearance of the testimony although it is taken for granted that it is another move in the conspiracy to impede the prosecu tion and hamper the prosecutors fears employes treachery that there may be treachery among the office employes is a suspicion that attorney loesch has been reluctantly obliged to em brace he is unable to see how any per son from the outside could have made way with these important documents and has or dered a close watch on his own assistants fourteen indictments were voted yester day against nine men in the ninth ward most of them minor political workers these indictments were immediately re turned to judge freeman as there was reason to suspect that some of the accused were about to leave the city capiases were at once issued and placed iu the hands of deputy sheriffs chief among those indicted were ernest kruelewitch republican precinct captain of the second precinct of the nineteenth ward and herman colin meyer verhs and philip hatowsky judges of election iu the third precinct of the same ward the three judges of whom veries and hatowsky are democrats and colin is a republican are from the home precinct of criminal court clerk abram harris | who was indicted last week and are known as his faithful supporters after higher-up the indictment against kruelewitch is the first definite step thus far taken iu the conspiracy charges that attorney loesch and his assistants rely upou for reaching the men higher up kruelewitch is indicted on three counts one for per jury oue for aiding and abetting illegal voting and one for conspiracy the conspiracy charge involves evidence of a deliberate plan to count out state's attorney healy and governor deneen and the distribution of a slush fund to that end shortly after the return of the indictment kruelewitch appeared in judge freeman's court and gave bond for his appearance iu tlie sum of 5,000 w kruelewitch his father was surety the three indicted election officials and the others against whom true mils were voted are expected to come into court this morning and give , bond the grand jury unanimously agreed to . remain in session until december 4 al , though the law permits them to take final . adjournment on november 28 hereafter , the jury will meet promptly at 10 o'clock , a m and will not adjourn before 5 p m no presentation will be made to judge , freeman to-morrow but all reeommenda . tions will be reserved until the elose of the . term the returns to he made to-morrow to . judge freeman are expected to bring the . total number of indictments thus far voted . up to at least 100 . sixty witnesses from the ninth tenth . and eighteenth wards were before the â€¢ grand jury yesterday and most of their . testimony wns witli refereuce to repeaters â€¢ the prospect of compensation for his â€¢ labors became considerably more vague to â€¢ attorney loesch yesterday when judge â€¢ mack entered a decree granting a pernia â€¢ nent injunction forbidding the county board â€¢ and tlie county treasurer from paying out â€¢ any of the county funds for his salary rockefeller tells story of standard oil's birth made 665,000,000 on 4,000 borrowed money trust's ust stand for life made bl chief under oath denies active part in southern improvement co which caused riots ,| ability caused success points to making of own bar rels as business trick * . that beat rivals archbold to take stand new york nov 18 for the cause of standard oil john d rockefeller took the wit ness stand to-day and recited with copy book precision his version of his first ten years in the oil business it was in the suit of the united states government to dissolve the oil trust for two hours and a quarter mr rockefeller answered the carefully worded questions put to him by john g milburn his personal attorney he began with his entry into the oil business in cleveland in 1860 or 1862 he could not remember the ex act date â€” with a capital of 4,000 and rambled through ten years of prelimi naries which led up to the formation of the richest and most powerful of trusts one of john d rockefeller's most striking admissions on tho stand was that ability to borrow money had been the secret of success of the standard il company he weni back to the very beginning when he and his first partners started in business on a cap ital of 4,000 he did not however carry out the deduction to its logical conclusion that this borrowed 4,000 had grown into 665,000,000 if one goes by to-day's quotations for stand ard oil stock leadership in first monopoly is denied his testimony to-day ended with a denial of any active participation in the south improvement company the formation of which caused riots all through the oil region mi rockefeller has been repeatedly charged by oil historians with being the moving spirit in this concern which calcu lated an absolute monopoly of oil from the moment it came from the wells in crude state until the refined product was delivered in eastern sea board markets to-morrow morning mr rockefeller will return to the stand and coached hy ques tions from mr milburn and morltz rosen thal he will tell of the development of the trust until 1882 when as his attorneys state he became too wealthy to partici pate in thc active engagement ot the com pany government attorney not to follow coached testimony when mr mllburn's last question has been asked mr rockefeller's real ordeal will begin his attorneys will have to turn him over to frank b kellogg chief prober for the government then will come volleys of questions on which the oil king has had no coaching tlie federal probe will go so deep into the early his tory of the oil trust that mr rockefeller may take refuge in i decline to answer if he does there will be an immediate petition to the united states courts to compel answers after the government has finished with mr rockefeller the standard oil attorneys say they will put john d archbold on the stand to tell the story of the oil trust from 1882 down to the present time william rockefeller brother william as john d repeatedly called him on the stand to-day nnd james moffett will follow to corrob orate the twin star witnesses john d rookefeller flanked by attorney and under a guard of policemen from the traffic squad edged hfs way into room 513 in the new custom house on bowliuir 1 green shortly before 2 o'clock this after noon he had come to standard oil head quarters 20 broadway at 10 o'clock had hod a light lunchean there and walked over to the custom house the richest man in the world sud along the wall until he got as near tire single window in the room as possible there he stood until a reporter gave up a chair into which he sank with a sigh mr rockefeller was up again in a min ute he made a sweeping bow smiled his cold smile and said gentlemen i greet you frank b kellogg came la luat thaa and story in a nutshell of standard oil's rise as told by its creator i started in the oil business in 1861 or 1862 i can't remember the exact date witb a capital of 4,000 business was good and wc soon began to branch out â€¢ â€¢ * it was superior business ability and my own faith in the future of the oil business that enabled the standard oil company to buy up a dozen or more cleveland refineries in the latter part of 1871 â€¢ * * in 1867 all the properties of rockefeller & andrews william rockefeller & co and rockefeller & co were taken over under the firm name of rockefeller andrews & flagler three years later in 1870 the standard oil company of ohio was organized with a capital of 1,000,000 and we enlisted much capital in the company â€¢ â€¢ â€¢ we were always large borrowers from the very beginning and i am thankful to say we always had a good credit for we always kept our covenants paid our paper and our ability to secure such loans and through allying with us leading capitalists was a great advantage to us â€¢ â€¢ â€¢ ft â€” were any coercive measures used in driving out your competitors ? a â€” none whatever none whatever ft â€” they were fair negotiations between parties representing their own interests ? a â€” they were fair negotiations â€” the only kind i want to say if you will pardon me â€” the kind of negotiations i have always made and no other â€¢ â€¢ * the business of refining by itself consid ered with the rapid growth of it absorbed the capital so fast that as a rule our friends in the refining business had not the capital to take forward steps which all cost money * â€¢ â€¢ * ft â€” did you or your associates initiate that south improvement scheme a â€” we did not field's niece gave husband 1,000,000 ante-nuptial settlement filed by mrs minna gibson burnaby a document legally filed for record in chi cago yesterday reveals that mrs minna field gibson burnaby divorced wife of preston gibson niece of the late marshall field settled upon algernon edwin burn aby whom she married last summer an interest of more than 1,000,000 in her estate the instrument is an antenuptial agree ment in which she provides that upon her death he shall be given one-third of her property which is valued now at more than 3.500,000 and is appreciating steadily mr burnaby is a resident of leicester shire kngland and it was necessary to hie the document in Chicago to give it stand ing in the local probate court title to her interest in the vast estate of her father the late henry field is in the hands of trustees including bryan lathrop and owen aldls and lately the name of thomas nelson page the famous writer of fiction who married her mother mrs henry field and now lives in washington d c has been added to the list of trus tees mrs burnaby's real estate holdings in Chicago represent the better part of her father's estate including three conspicuous corners in the business district valued re cently at 3,500,000 . they include the fol lowing wabash avenue northeast corner of mon roe street improved with a twelve-storv building 1,500,000 clark street northeast corner of adams part of the laud on which-the commercial national hank building now stands valued roundly at 1,750,000 state street southwest corner of harri son valued at 211,500 in case of his death sir burnaby agreed to give mrs gibson who on the date of signing of the instrument july 17 ipos was about to become his wife a one-third interest lu his estate real personal and mixed in whatever countnj it nmy be if she shall then be living as his wife they then both conveyed all interest in her father's estate to the trustees mr burn aby including all interest he may have or be come entitled to as her husband and es pecially his contingent right of dower and homestead in anc to all property belonging to the trust in case mr burnaby survives mrs burnaby he will not sue claim or de mand any right of dower or homestead or other interest whatsoever to any real estate that may belong to this trust the trustees have full power to handle the property and nfter paying all opera ting expenses shall pay over the net in come to mrs minna k gibson bnrnnhv during her lifetime the income is esti mated at 250,000 a year in the event that mrs burnaby shall die leaving no husband surviving lier the trustees shall convey the propertv to such persons as she may by will direct mrs buruaby may have the right to require the trustees to pay her out of the prin cipal of the property money not exceeding 100,000 in the aggregate as she mav de mand it for her sole use free from all control of her husband nnd this shall not form a part of the property belonging to the trust estate nelson morris fortune only totals 18,131,262 as scheduled in court stocks are listed at par at 9,877,250 and realty holdings at 3,000,000 ' stocks 9,877,250.00 accounts receivable 4.945,499.06 notes good 318,513.28 real estate about 3,000,000.00 total 18,131,262.34 these are the principal items in the es tate of the late nelson morris the Chicago packer as scheduled in court yesterday by the executors of his estate edward morris ira morris and mrs sarah morris to the surprise of the general public the total value of the morris estate is fixed at about 18,000,000 it had been supposed that the estate was worth up wards of 30,000,000 but the vast differ ence in these two sums possibly may be accounted for through the fact that the executors schedule all the stock holdings at par and fail to place any certain value on the realty holdings and other properties that mr morris owned in Chicago and throughout the country that mr morris conducted his gigantic business on elose linos is shown by the statement of the executors that the total of his desperate sundry old accounts only is u3,2Â»5.81 and the total of the desperate notes he held only is 28,965.52 in the accounts receivable list the fol lowing persons and corporations are named as owing money to the morris estate mrs m l rothfichild Â„ 444 10 c e davis â– *.- 4*j2>s j 1 ?' & & s . c * nv ** b 17.845.-1s edward morris 118.402.t5s u 1 "\ , m t 51*Â»,tÂ»8.17 ml-9 m j moitis 2,43001 h o schwab 182.33 h m samson 25.000.0u piatt & jertmuitth toco national itttidoriug company 27 10 l h heyinan i.dmuh i'eona fire liwiimnee claim account lo 75a mj fail-bank canninfi compiuiy 3 oy^'.sii fi'i fairbauk canning company 14aiv *': h c schwab 2bo',wl).m the morris realty holdings iu Chicago include fourteen residence and business lots on the north west and south sides the realty iu cook county outside of chi cago includes fourteen blocks of rand at Chicago uidge and several ranches the paper of thirty-three separate cor porations is represented in the 9,877330 all of which are listed at par the stock holdings are as follows west philadelphia stock yards company ttla shares union stock yards company of baltimore 450 shares stock yarn's hank of national stock yards Illinois sharos stock yards swings hank of obieago 22 shares national i-ire stock bank 374 shares national rendering company of new jersey 1,070 shares jersey city stock yards company iso shares union stock yards national bank south omaha neb 75 shares l'nion ken deriiig company of Chicago s&o sharea uniim uendering & refining company 2'li ahaicÃŸ kothschild & co 5,047 shares lohr.lt it co 125 shares lhirlinp & co 50*0 shares st louis stock yards lo.nlt shurcs first national bank f Chicago 2.52s shares texas & pacific hall way company 400 shares american live stock transportation company 10,000 shares st vram water & power company fcl shares south kau francisco ijuul Â«Â£: improvenient company s 575 shaies western meat company san francisco 2,:t27 sharer brighton stock yards 751 sharera new england stock yards ijoo shares people's trust & savings bank 2:>o shares security bank of Chicago lott shares bast st louis itenderin company 40 shares national safe deposit con pany 150 shares st louli cattle loan companv 351 shares morris & ca 17.000 sliareÃŸ west side trust & savings bank 350 shares bank of south san fraiioisi so shares distillers se curity corporation 13 shares Chicago & colorado mining & milling company 37,900 shares south omaha laud company 528 shares big gambling house wrecked by raid james o'leary denies police charge of owning south halsted street den the downtown police yesterday raided a big gambling house at 4111 south hal sted street which they wrecked and stripped of its telephones and gambling de vices and where they arrested fifty-four men twenty others escaped the proprietor is believed to be james o'lesry the stock yards gambling pro moter whom twenty years of off and on battling between eras of friendly police and lack of protection have found steadily refusing to quit the gambling business o'leary makes strenuous denial that he owns the gambling house which is iu an abandoned packing building about 100 yards from his main saloon and pool room the police say officially that he is the owner and george murray who arranged bail bonds for the prisoners is an attache of o'leary's saloon o'leary was not ar rested inspector clancy surprised inspector clancy of the stock yards sta tion last night said he knew nothing of the presence of this large gambling house until after the assistant chief's detectives had made the raid he could not explain to the satisfaction of chief shippy or any body else how this could be the buildiug is an old vacant two-story frame structure which has been occupied by the gamblers for about ten days tho entrance on halsted street was locked and the windows were paiuted the only open door led from the alley five detectives led by arthur barrage farwell head of the Chicago law and order league broke in a door of tile place and fought back a crowd of frantic men attempting to escape by the doors and windows one man was seen running down the alley with his solid and face bleeding from cuts made by the broken glass six patrol wagon loads of prisoners were taken to the harrison street station howell booked as keeper a e howell was booked as keeper of the place when questioned as to his con nections with o'leary he refused to give any information he smiled and said that he had nothing to say at the time of the raid according to the detectives many forms or gambling were in progress i'oker chips were vjiled on card tables dice rattled on an oltf regula tion crap table twelve feet long used when gambling was booming under mayor hop kins ami evidently btored away for use when a propitious time arrived ln the rear room of the place crowds stood aronful a large placard on which appeared lite names of horses and jockeys winning stakes were being counted out and bookmakers were busy among jhe in mates twenty decks of cards l.rioo poker chips a telephone over which returns were be ing received and tlie large crap table were confiscated and taken to chief shippy's office to serve as evidence in court to-day 1 what are your | i prospects f i for bettering your con ? x dition are they good i i"f they will be if you will * 4 advertise in the situ Â£ x ation wanted col Â£ t umns of the examiner t j because your ad will be * a seen by thousands of 'Â£. Â£ employers and because j j you will be given the â€¢$â€¢ x services of the x i t ? examiner employment ? j exchange 1 3 70 washington street â€¢*"â€¢ x 115 fifth avenue x 776 milwaukee avenue -!- x â€¢> h-h-h-i"1"i"x â– â– :â– â– :â– m k-'-*----4 m weather forecast l jy>a Chicago and vicinity fair f a \ v^f thursday and probably friday t continued mild temperature fresh /'â€¢Â»â€¢ ji make money m l(vi recovering the valuable articles t'vu emss y u ma >* lose this is most easily k *\ 3f done through the insertion of a w j vv small ad in the examiner's lost 1 4 vft and found column aitf jjÂ«b phone randolph 2500 lffl

Chicago examiner thursday november 19 1908.-14 pages vol vi no 286 a m price one cent Â»Â«*Â«â€¢-- will honor finerty to-night the committee in charge has completed all the necessary arrangements for the john ''â€¢ finerty memorial meeting to be held this evening at 8 o'clock at the new seventh regiment armory thirty-fifth street ami vi'cntwortb avenue bourke fockran of xew york will be the orator de sagans laugh at charges made against them by boni ex-husband tells court quar rels of pair have wrecked children's nerves saved 130,000 francs because of this economy in five months prince says gould is friend by vance thompson pares nov 18 in open court to-dayj maitre bonnet lawyer for count boni de castellane declared he knew positively that the trincess de sagan contemplated | asking a divorce from her husband and ' added that the constant strife and quar reling had so injured the health of count boni's unfortunate children that they have become nervous wrecks the advocate states that he has a letter from the de sagan family physician sayiug that he has jjeen forbidden even to acquaint count boni with the condition of the children in spite of these startling statements j the court adjourned the case for a week count de castellane who was present in thc courtroom told the examiner corre spondent that other and more serious allegations would be made proving the un fitness of thc de sagans to have charge of the children princess calls charges lies the correspoudent went at once to the famous de sagan mansion in the avenue du bois de bolougne the trincess de sagan wan ill and iu bed but ln answer to a note | asked the correspondent to come up dressed in a black peignoir she received him ln the tapestried boudoir where she sat holding a small blenheim spaniel on her knee when she heard what count boni's lawyer had stated in court she cried oh it is infamous a lot of lies she said i told you yesterday how happy the prince and i were you may be surej 1 nothing has changed in our cordial rela ; tions the only thing that worries me is j , the statement alleged to have been made _ by our doctor i can't lnder3tand it they would hardly dare take a forged letter into court would they at this moment the prince who had been 6ent for came in as to the two children being nervous wrecks continued the princess they really are 111 that is boni the eldest has chicken pox jay probably will take it and perhaps george the doctor thinks i may get it myself and the prince too both laughed as if this was a good joke then the princess told her husband how worried ' she was over the doctor's state ment that the condition of the children was being concealed oh dou't worry said the prince we will go and see the doctor ourselves physician writes out denial the prince accompanied the correspond ent to the residence of the family physi cian dr e o avieragnet in the rue de courcelles the doctor wrote out the following explicit denial of m bonnot's allegation i have never written to the count de castellane refusing to give him news of his children you may be sure of this on the contrary i have put myself at the disposal of bis family physician dr lere houlet to give him news of the condition of the children at any time avieragnet upon our teturn to the house prince de sagan said pausing at a small room on the first floor come into my den you see i don't take up much room in the house princess de sagan refused to discuss any of the allegations made against her hus band in the papers served on her by count boni saying they are all lies and will come out soon enough the prince was less reticent he said boni bas raked up a lot of old stories nnd scandals mostly malicious lies dating from twenty to thirty years ago said de sagan one allegation was made that none of his family would speak to me this can bc disproved by letters from casttllnne's own family written iu terms of affection up to the last two years prince saving money growing confidential the prince said you know the goulds were very much i opposed to me at first but they have | come round now one thing helped thei agent of the gould estate in paris showed | by his accounts that instead of spending our income and reserve we have in the ' last five months saved 130,000 francs of course i am not yet free of debts but 1 am paying them off rapidly and we have a good reserve this so pleased george gould that he has become my ally and friend we are living well and pay ing off our debts at the same time the prince said there was no question of their winning the suit brought by count i boni although it would cost a lot of money the lawyers know we have it he said so it i l pos t us more than it will cost boni but it will be hard on him the ex penses of the suit will swainti hlm when bc spoke of count boni's troubles the prince smiled Taft will strive to keep cannon out of the speaker's chair deaf to sherman's pleas burton of ohio chosen for gavel president elect wants root in senate hot springs va nov is.-presi dent-klect Taft is convinced to-night that elian itoot will be elected senator from new york and that joseph g cannon should not be re-elected speaker of the house james s sherman vice president-elect and william l ward who came here os tensibly for their respective healths have kept a private car on the side track on the top of the mountain three days await 1 ing the return of mr Taft they saw i him this afternoon for two and one-half hours at his cottage and told him that me hoot should be and would be senator from new york sherman's mission was to beg for can non he took assurances to mr Taft that cannon would be good in the next fonr years but mr Taft knows from observa tion the attitude of cannon toward poli cies that soon are to become his own and is skeptical of the speaker's sincerity | william l ward conversant with house ! conditions says that any one can beat i cannon if it is known that the new ad ministration is against the speaker con gressman burton of ohio is the man who the next administration would like to see in the speaker's chair it is likely that if mr root goes to the senate george von l meyer will be made secretary of state and that will leave the treasury portfolio open wife says spirits bade occultist end life m'-s barnes declares professor could not resist call from beyond boston mass nov 18 that professor william a barnes the eminent psycholo gist who killed himself ln the back bay station had delved so deeply into the realm of the beyond that he was forced to follow the beckoning of immortal hands and enter the unknown is the beltef of his j stricken wife i know my husband fought against the call of the unseen the dwellers in the world beyond for at least six years said mrs barnes i helped him fight against the impulse to take his own life but it proved too strong for him in the end we lived together iu perfect harmony and oftentimes we actually dreamed the same i dreams we were born to the same spir itual plane woman blind 36 years has sight restored benefited by noted german specialist after severe operations new york nov 18.-after being blind for thirty-six years miss alice hollis sees again Â» although her vision is not perfect she can read with eyeglasses typewritten letters miss hollis left here to-day for her home in port huron mich she was stricken with blindness when thirteen years old miss hollis went to germany and consulted dr pagensticher a famous specialist of the eye at wies baden she knew a man whose sight dr pagensticher had restored the man's blindness like her own had been caused by the application of a too strong caustic for inflammation of the eyes dr r.-tgen sticher performed several severe opera tions on her eyes with the happy result of restoring sight vice president gayley will quit steel trust resignation to be accepted before jan 1 announces president corey new york nov 18 william e corey president of the united states steel corporation made this announce ment to-day mr james gayley first vice president to-day tendered his resignation which will be accepted he has advised us that he wishes to retire from active business he has contempleted doing this for some time and by resigning now gives time to complete our organization for the begin ning of the new year it is said that mr gayley has been in poor health recently and had frequently expressed a determination to retire from active business at 75 again asks divorce crawkordsv.lle ind nov 18 mrs catherine bryant who filed suit for divorce from simon bryant last january but was persuaded not to push the case has now filed a second suit both mr and mrs bryant are past seventy-five years of age and have been married fifty years loesch robbed of erand jury fraud testimony evidence of nineteenth ward corruption taken from prosecutor's desk suspect office employe il4 more indictments against 9 men county enjoined from paying salary one hundred pages of grand jury testi mony taken from nineteenth ward wit nesses was missed from the office of special state"s attorney loesch yesterday afternoon this astounding discovery was made shortly after 5 o'clock by chief investi gator robert m buck who had occasion to refer to the papers in question and their loss was immediately reported to at torney loesch and his assistant frank h janiszeskl the missing pages included the testi mony of thirty-seven witnesses from that ward and was the basis for several of the indictments that have already been returned it also included testimony upon which several true bills have since been voted but which have not yet been re turned in court â€¢ the documents together with the sten ographic notes from which they were drawn were kept in a drawer of mr buck's desk and were returned to their accustomed place late tuesduy night drawer locked papers gone until last evening there had been no occasion to refer to them and then they were gone the drawer had been left locked when mr buck went home tues day night and was still locked last eve ning if it was a theft and it evidently was said mr buck it was one of the most mysterious that i have ever come in contact with the desk shows no sign of violence no strangers have been al lowed about no one has beeu in the room unless 1 was present and yet the testi mony is missing i am unable to con ceive how such a thing could have been done when the theft was reported to at torney loesrh he directed that an imme diate search be made of all the vaults and safes all the desks and drawers and every other nook and cranny of the offices it was without avail there was only one copy of this evidence and if it is not recovered it is possible that all of the witnesses who gave the testimony may have to be recalled utmost secrecy maintained mr loeseh's instructions to his assistants were for the utmost secrecy as to all the proceedings of the grand jury even the stenographers have not been permitted to retain their own notes but both the notes and their transcripts have beeu taken in charge by mr buck and locked in his desk the janitors who swept out have not been permitted to enter any part of the office suite alone and every piece of waste paper has been carefully torn up iu the presence of mr loesch or one of his as sistants before it has been taken from thc building there is only one set of keys to each desk , suspicion has not definitely fixed itself on any oue iu connection witb the disap pearance of the testimony although it is taken for granted that it is another move in the conspiracy to impede the prosecu tion and hamper the prosecutors fears employes treachery that there may be treachery among the office employes is a suspicion that attorney loesch has been reluctantly obliged to em brace he is unable to see how any per son from the outside could have made way with these important documents and has or dered a close watch on his own assistants fourteen indictments were voted yester day against nine men in the ninth ward most of them minor political workers these indictments were immediately re turned to judge freeman as there was reason to suspect that some of the accused were about to leave the city capiases were at once issued and placed iu the hands of deputy sheriffs chief among those indicted were ernest kruelewitch republican precinct captain of the second precinct of the nineteenth ward and herman colin meyer verhs and philip hatowsky judges of election iu the third precinct of the same ward the three judges of whom veries and hatowsky are democrats and colin is a republican are from the home precinct of criminal court clerk abram harris | who was indicted last week and are known as his faithful supporters after higher-up the indictment against kruelewitch is the first definite step thus far taken iu the conspiracy charges that attorney loesch and his assistants rely upou for reaching the men higher up kruelewitch is indicted on three counts one for per jury oue for aiding and abetting illegal voting and one for conspiracy the conspiracy charge involves evidence of a deliberate plan to count out state's attorney healy and governor deneen and the distribution of a slush fund to that end shortly after the return of the indictment kruelewitch appeared in judge freeman's court and gave bond for his appearance iu tlie sum of 5,000 w kruelewitch his father was surety the three indicted election officials and the others against whom true mils were voted are expected to come into court this morning and give , bond the grand jury unanimously agreed to . remain in session until december 4 al , though the law permits them to take final . adjournment on november 28 hereafter , the jury will meet promptly at 10 o'clock , a m and will not adjourn before 5 p m no presentation will be made to judge , freeman to-morrow but all reeommenda . tions will be reserved until the elose of the . term the returns to he made to-morrow to . judge freeman are expected to bring the . total number of indictments thus far voted . up to at least 100 . sixty witnesses from the ninth tenth . and eighteenth wards were before the â€¢ grand jury yesterday and most of their . testimony wns witli refereuce to repeaters â€¢ the prospect of compensation for his â€¢ labors became considerably more vague to â€¢ attorney loesch yesterday when judge â€¢ mack entered a decree granting a pernia â€¢ nent injunction forbidding the county board â€¢ and tlie county treasurer from paying out â€¢ any of the county funds for his salary rockefeller tells story of standard oil's birth made 665,000,000 on 4,000 borrowed money trust's ust stand for life made bl chief under oath denies active part in southern improvement co which caused riots ,| ability caused success points to making of own bar rels as business trick * . that beat rivals archbold to take stand new york nov 18 for the cause of standard oil john d rockefeller took the wit ness stand to-day and recited with copy book precision his version of his first ten years in the oil business it was in the suit of the united states government to dissolve the oil trust for two hours and a quarter mr rockefeller answered the carefully worded questions put to him by john g milburn his personal attorney he began with his entry into the oil business in cleveland in 1860 or 1862 he could not remember the ex act date â€” with a capital of 4,000 and rambled through ten years of prelimi naries which led up to the formation of the richest and most powerful of trusts one of john d rockefeller's most striking admissions on tho stand was that ability to borrow money had been the secret of success of the standard il company he weni back to the very beginning when he and his first partners started in business on a cap ital of 4,000 he did not however carry out the deduction to its logical conclusion that this borrowed 4,000 had grown into 665,000,000 if one goes by to-day's quotations for stand ard oil stock leadership in first monopoly is denied his testimony to-day ended with a denial of any active participation in the south improvement company the formation of which caused riots all through the oil region mi rockefeller has been repeatedly charged by oil historians with being the moving spirit in this concern which calcu lated an absolute monopoly of oil from the moment it came from the wells in crude state until the refined product was delivered in eastern sea board markets to-morrow morning mr rockefeller will return to the stand and coached hy ques tions from mr milburn and morltz rosen thal he will tell of the development of the trust until 1882 when as his attorneys state he became too wealthy to partici pate in thc active engagement ot the com pany government attorney not to follow coached testimony when mr mllburn's last question has been asked mr rockefeller's real ordeal will begin his attorneys will have to turn him over to frank b kellogg chief prober for the government then will come volleys of questions on which the oil king has had no coaching tlie federal probe will go so deep into the early his tory of the oil trust that mr rockefeller may take refuge in i decline to answer if he does there will be an immediate petition to the united states courts to compel answers after the government has finished with mr rockefeller the standard oil attorneys say they will put john d archbold on the stand to tell the story of the oil trust from 1882 down to the present time william rockefeller brother william as john d repeatedly called him on the stand to-day nnd james moffett will follow to corrob orate the twin star witnesses john d rookefeller flanked by attorney and under a guard of policemen from the traffic squad edged hfs way into room 513 in the new custom house on bowliuir 1 green shortly before 2 o'clock this after noon he had come to standard oil head quarters 20 broadway at 10 o'clock had hod a light lunchean there and walked over to the custom house the richest man in the world sud along the wall until he got as near tire single window in the room as possible there he stood until a reporter gave up a chair into which he sank with a sigh mr rockefeller was up again in a min ute he made a sweeping bow smiled his cold smile and said gentlemen i greet you frank b kellogg came la luat thaa and story in a nutshell of standard oil's rise as told by its creator i started in the oil business in 1861 or 1862 i can't remember the exact date witb a capital of 4,000 business was good and wc soon began to branch out â€¢ â€¢ * it was superior business ability and my own faith in the future of the oil business that enabled the standard oil company to buy up a dozen or more cleveland refineries in the latter part of 1871 â€¢ * * in 1867 all the properties of rockefeller & andrews william rockefeller & co and rockefeller & co were taken over under the firm name of rockefeller andrews & flagler three years later in 1870 the standard oil company of ohio was organized with a capital of 1,000,000 and we enlisted much capital in the company â€¢ â€¢ â€¢ we were always large borrowers from the very beginning and i am thankful to say we always had a good credit for we always kept our covenants paid our paper and our ability to secure such loans and through allying with us leading capitalists was a great advantage to us â€¢ â€¢ â€¢ ft â€” were any coercive measures used in driving out your competitors ? a â€” none whatever none whatever ft â€” they were fair negotiations between parties representing their own interests ? a â€” they were fair negotiations â€” the only kind i want to say if you will pardon me â€” the kind of negotiations i have always made and no other â€¢ â€¢ * the business of refining by itself consid ered with the rapid growth of it absorbed the capital so fast that as a rule our friends in the refining business had not the capital to take forward steps which all cost money * â€¢ â€¢ * ft â€” did you or your associates initiate that south improvement scheme a â€” we did not field's niece gave husband 1,000,000 ante-nuptial settlement filed by mrs minna gibson burnaby a document legally filed for record in chi cago yesterday reveals that mrs minna field gibson burnaby divorced wife of preston gibson niece of the late marshall field settled upon algernon edwin burn aby whom she married last summer an interest of more than 1,000,000 in her estate the instrument is an antenuptial agree ment in which she provides that upon her death he shall be given one-third of her property which is valued now at more than 3.500,000 and is appreciating steadily mr burnaby is a resident of leicester shire kngland and it was necessary to hie the document in Chicago to give it stand ing in the local probate court title to her interest in the vast estate of her father the late henry field is in the hands of trustees including bryan lathrop and owen aldls and lately the name of thomas nelson page the famous writer of fiction who married her mother mrs henry field and now lives in washington d c has been added to the list of trus tees mrs burnaby's real estate holdings in Chicago represent the better part of her father's estate including three conspicuous corners in the business district valued re cently at 3,500,000 . they include the fol lowing wabash avenue northeast corner of mon roe street improved with a twelve-storv building 1,500,000 clark street northeast corner of adams part of the laud on which-the commercial national hank building now stands valued roundly at 1,750,000 state street southwest corner of harri son valued at 211,500 in case of his death sir burnaby agreed to give mrs gibson who on the date of signing of the instrument july 17 ipos was about to become his wife a one-third interest lu his estate real personal and mixed in whatever countnj it nmy be if she shall then be living as his wife they then both conveyed all interest in her father's estate to the trustees mr burn aby including all interest he may have or be come entitled to as her husband and es pecially his contingent right of dower and homestead in anc to all property belonging to the trust in case mr burnaby survives mrs burnaby he will not sue claim or de mand any right of dower or homestead or other interest whatsoever to any real estate that may belong to this trust the trustees have full power to handle the property and nfter paying all opera ting expenses shall pay over the net in come to mrs minna k gibson bnrnnhv during her lifetime the income is esti mated at 250,000 a year in the event that mrs burnaby shall die leaving no husband surviving lier the trustees shall convey the propertv to such persons as she may by will direct mrs buruaby may have the right to require the trustees to pay her out of the prin cipal of the property money not exceeding 100,000 in the aggregate as she mav de mand it for her sole use free from all control of her husband nnd this shall not form a part of the property belonging to the trust estate nelson morris fortune only totals 18,131,262 as scheduled in court stocks are listed at par at 9,877,250 and realty holdings at 3,000,000 ' stocks 9,877,250.00 accounts receivable 4.945,499.06 notes good 318,513.28 real estate about 3,000,000.00 total 18,131,262.34 these are the principal items in the es tate of the late nelson morris the Chicago packer as scheduled in court yesterday by the executors of his estate edward morris ira morris and mrs sarah morris to the surprise of the general public the total value of the morris estate is fixed at about 18,000,000 it had been supposed that the estate was worth up wards of 30,000,000 but the vast differ ence in these two sums possibly may be accounted for through the fact that the executors schedule all the stock holdings at par and fail to place any certain value on the realty holdings and other properties that mr morris owned in Chicago and throughout the country that mr morris conducted his gigantic business on elose linos is shown by the statement of the executors that the total of his desperate sundry old accounts only is u3,2Â»5.81 and the total of the desperate notes he held only is 28,965.52 in the accounts receivable list the fol lowing persons and corporations are named as owing money to the morris estate mrs m l rothfichild Â„ 444 10 c e davis â– *.- 4*j2>s j 1 ?' & & s . c * nv ** b 17.845.-1s edward morris 118.402.t5s u 1 "\ , m t 51*Â»,tÂ»8.17 ml-9 m j moitis 2,43001 h o schwab 182.33 h m samson 25.000.0u piatt & jertmuitth toco national itttidoriug company 27 10 l h heyinan i.dmuh i'eona fire liwiimnee claim account lo 75a mj fail-bank canninfi compiuiy 3 oy^'.sii fi'i fairbauk canning company 14aiv *': h c schwab 2bo',wl).m the morris realty holdings iu Chicago include fourteen residence and business lots on the north west and south sides the realty iu cook county outside of chi cago includes fourteen blocks of rand at Chicago uidge and several ranches the paper of thirty-three separate cor porations is represented in the 9,877330 all of which are listed at par the stock holdings are as follows west philadelphia stock yards company ttla shares union stock yards company of baltimore 450 shares stock yarn's hank of national stock yards Illinois sharos stock yards swings hank of obieago 22 shares national i-ire stock bank 374 shares national rendering company of new jersey 1,070 shares jersey city stock yards company iso shares union stock yards national bank south omaha neb 75 shares l'nion ken deriiig company of Chicago s&o sharea uniim uendering & refining company 2'li ahaicÃŸ kothschild & co 5,047 shares lohr.lt it co 125 shares lhirlinp & co 50*0 shares st louis stock yards lo.nlt shurcs first national bank f Chicago 2.52s shares texas & pacific hall way company 400 shares american live stock transportation company 10,000 shares st vram water & power company fcl shares south kau francisco ijuul Â«Â£: improvenient company s 575 shaies western meat company san francisco 2,:t27 sharer brighton stock yards 751 sharera new england stock yards ijoo shares people's trust & savings bank 2:>o shares security bank of Chicago lott shares bast st louis itenderin company 40 shares national safe deposit con pany 150 shares st louli cattle loan companv 351 shares morris & ca 17.000 sliareÃŸ west side trust & savings bank 350 shares bank of south san fraiioisi so shares distillers se curity corporation 13 shares Chicago & colorado mining & milling company 37,900 shares south omaha laud company 528 shares big gambling house wrecked by raid james o'leary denies police charge of owning south halsted street den the downtown police yesterday raided a big gambling house at 4111 south hal sted street which they wrecked and stripped of its telephones and gambling de vices and where they arrested fifty-four men twenty others escaped the proprietor is believed to be james o'lesry the stock yards gambling pro moter whom twenty years of off and on battling between eras of friendly police and lack of protection have found steadily refusing to quit the gambling business o'leary makes strenuous denial that he owns the gambling house which is iu an abandoned packing building about 100 yards from his main saloon and pool room the police say officially that he is the owner and george murray who arranged bail bonds for the prisoners is an attache of o'leary's saloon o'leary was not ar rested inspector clancy surprised inspector clancy of the stock yards sta tion last night said he knew nothing of the presence of this large gambling house until after the assistant chief's detectives had made the raid he could not explain to the satisfaction of chief shippy or any body else how this could be the buildiug is an old vacant two-story frame structure which has been occupied by the gamblers for about ten days tho entrance on halsted street was locked and the windows were paiuted the only open door led from the alley five detectives led by arthur barrage farwell head of the Chicago law and order league broke in a door of tile place and fought back a crowd of frantic men attempting to escape by the doors and windows one man was seen running down the alley with his solid and face bleeding from cuts made by the broken glass six patrol wagon loads of prisoners were taken to the harrison street station howell booked as keeper a e howell was booked as keeper of the place when questioned as to his con nections with o'leary he refused to give any information he smiled and said that he had nothing to say at the time of the raid according to the detectives many forms or gambling were in progress i'oker chips were vjiled on card tables dice rattled on an oltf regula tion crap table twelve feet long used when gambling was booming under mayor hop kins ami evidently btored away for use when a propitious time arrived ln the rear room of the place crowds stood aronful a large placard on which appeared lite names of horses and jockeys winning stakes were being counted out and bookmakers were busy among jhe in mates twenty decks of cards l.rioo poker chips a telephone over which returns were be ing received and tlie large crap table were confiscated and taken to chief shippy's office to serve as evidence in court to-day 1 what are your | i prospects f i for bettering your con ? x dition are they good i i"f they will be if you will * 4 advertise in the situ Â£ x ation wanted col Â£ t umns of the examiner t j because your ad will be * a seen by thousands of 'Â£. Â£ employers and because j j you will be given the â€¢$â€¢ x services of the x i t ? examiner employment ? j exchange 1 3 70 washington street â€¢*"â€¢ x 115 fifth avenue x 776 milwaukee avenue -!- x â€¢> h-h-h-i"1"i"x â– â– :â– â– :â– m k-'-*----4 m weather forecast l jy>a Chicago and vicinity fair f a \ v^f thursday and probably friday t continued mild temperature fresh /'â€¢Â»â€¢ ji make money m l(vi recovering the valuable articles t'vu emss y u ma >* lose this is most easily k *\ 3f done through the insertion of a w j vv small ad in the examiner's lost 1 4 vft and found column aitf jjÂ«b phone randolph 2500 lffl